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Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast, where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three. And after dealing with my own health mysteries, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner. And so much more after that, I founded the Revolutionary Thyroid Program, the Hanson Method. As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week, I will be here for you, along with my guest experts.
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We will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset, so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself. Ovation, welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast. And we're not taught things in between. However, even with ovulation, some of the things that I don't think I fully understood until becoming a practitioner learning about women's hormones, like some of this didn't all come together for me either until after that, and maybe you guys had some different sex ed or <laugh> hormone education from your parents, but hopefully we're gonna be sharing some valuable insight to you for this, this part during, during your cycle. Now, obviously when you go through menopause, you no longer have a cycle, but do you still ovulate? Well, the answer is no, because the egg isn't dropping right.
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However, you still have a surge in hormones because your body, those hormonal changes do not change <laugh> just because you go through menstrual cycles or just because you go through ovulation oh my gosh, because you go through men <laugh> menopause because you go through menopause, your body still has those hormonal fluctuations inside of them. The result of an egg dropping and or your menstrual cycle starting, that doesn't change. So when we hit between about day, I think it's 11, let me just double check. Yeah. So day 12 to day 16, that is our ovulation window. And what happens during that time is all of our hormones really begin to peak at that point, allowing the egg to drop from the fallopian tubes in hopes of pregnancy, right? And so the other thing that starts about day five, five days before your ovulation is your estrogen or not estrogen.
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Oh my goodness, you guys, your testosterone is going to change. So around day 10, nine to 10 of your cycle, that is when you're feeling in the mood and you can't keep your hands off of your partner. And that's because of testosterone. So testosterone, and yes, you guys, we do need testosterone. I know that is one of the big things that we think, oh, that's just like a, a man's hormone. But we do need small amounts or small quantities of this testosterone because our body is smart, and it is going to increase the testosterone to elevate your mood, your libido, about five days before you ovulate, so that you'll be seeking out a partner in obviously in hopes to get pregnant. Whether you really want a baby or not, like your body is going to have some of those natural urges, and we want that which can live, okay?
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So sperm can live in the body for about three to five days in hopes that when the egg is released, that you'll become pregnant. So that's why, despite the fact that your eggs live for only about 24 hours, you are considered fertile for the four to, or five to six days out of each month. So it doesn't seem, doesn't it seem a little silly to suppress our hormones endlessly when your fertility is only about six days out a month? This is one of the things that has always kind of blown my mind when it comes to birth control, right? Birth control all month long. We wanna suppress, suppress, suppress. And this is why coming off of birth control can be so difficult and challenging for people. And then if you don't really know any better when you have, when you come off the birth control, you're gonna have side effects, and then you're gonna be like, ah, this isn't worth it.
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And then you just go back on, on the birth control. So it's really important that we are looking at the hormones as a whole. So if one hormone is out of balance, this is the whole body, the whole system, the all of the hormones are gonna be out of balance. And this is again, why we really need to track our symptoms over time and like throughout the month, I shouldn't say over time, but track it throughout the, the month to see when do I have energy? When am I not feeling good? When is this happening? When is that happening? And really pay attention to that because I don't think I wasn't ever taught to do those types of things. Now, in addition to that, there are, we have to also understand that when we are working to balance our hormones, it is going to take us at least, at least three cycles, three months to get everything to regulate everything, to start working a little bit better and really notice those hormonal changes that are happening and that we want.
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So for this time, I want to also talk about some of the differences that in our, in our hormones and what can happen. What are some of the symptoms? I guess that's what I'm trying to say to, to say, Ooh, words are hard this morning. So your heavy, painful periods and mood swings are not all because of estrogen and progesterone. Okay? But that's probably what your doctor has been telling you. So if you were all about estrogen dominance and low progesterone, then simply going on the birth control to take hormone replacement pills to get rid of your symptoms, this isn't gonna work, right? It's not gonna work long term, it's not going to be beneficial, and ultimately it's gonna leave you with unpleasant side effects and consequences such as bone loss, blood clots, strokes, leaky gut dementia, and reproductive cancers. So like ovarian cancers and cysts and things like that.
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So the problem with the medical industry is that it's focusing on fixing, fixing air quotes here, the high estrogen and low progesterone symptoms, and it doesn't at all address the why these things are getting outta balance. So low progesterone accounts for symptoms like mid swings, low libido in an inability to get or stay pregnant, hair loss, sore breasts and spotting mid-cycle. So if you are spotting or if your cycle is all over the place, we have to look at low progesterone. So low progesterone can be caused by several different reasons. Number one, brain injuries to the pituitary or penal gland. So think whiplash or even pregnancy, pregnancy changes those types of things and increase in food that contain estrogenic properties like non fermented soy pesticides or herbicides. We see this happen a lot with women farmers, <laugh>, because you guys are probably around a little bit more pesticides and herbicides and things like that.
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And, and obviously there are ways to help support your body if that's your living, right? Like I always tell people there's more than one way. And then the last thing that, not the last thing, but one of the other causes of low progesterone can be poor communication between the brain and the ovaries. And this can again be like because of the vagus nerve or again, whiplash and things like that. So, high estrogen symptoms, account for irregular periods, heavy cycles, endometriosis, P P C O S, painful periods, hormonal breakouts and weight gain. So estrogen dominance. And there again, there's a couple different kinds of estrogen dominance, which I'll talk about here in just a second. But first, xeno estrogen. So these are toxins that mimic estrogen in the body and they can be found in your everyday care products. So plastic skincare products, things like that.
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So it's really important that when we are using products, especially on our skin as women and in our hair and things like that, that we are using products that are not estrogen mimicking, okay? That they don't confuse the body. The second thing is an overload of toxins in the body. When we have too many toxins in the body, our body is going to try to protect you from those poor liver metabolism. So if you are not pooping <laugh>, if you are having like a clay colored stool or light colored brown stool, these can also be signs of a poor liver metabolism messing up all of your hormones and just creating some havoc there. The second thing, or not the second thing, I think that's like the fourth thing <laugh> is going back to the first one, the low pge, low progesterone. So when progesterone is low, we can have issues.
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Okay? And then last that I wanted to bring up a diet heavy and soy and you guys, soy comes in so many places, like even the chocolates that we crave around our menstrual cycle, a lot of them do have soy in them. So it's really important that we also look at the, the chocolate that we're eating. Okay? So like I mentioned, there are two different types of estrogen dominance. One is there is true estrogen dominance, meaning the body has too much, the second kind is too much estrogen to proje two progesterone. So meaning the ratio is off. So when we're testing hormones, we can't just look at this hormone, this hormone, we have to also look at estrogen and progesterone and the relationship that they have. And you guys will see on, like when you do sex hormone panels, you will see this huge range of numbers and your doctor isn't usually asking, where were you at in your menstrual cycle?
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They're just looking, oh, yeah, okay, you follow within this range and you're fine. Not necessarily is this normal for the range or for the phase of my menstrual cycle that I'm in. And I, I don't know why, I don't know why <laugh> that we're not being taught to, to track our cycle a little bit better. Okay? So when we don't deal with a root cause, like we mentioned above, we end up chasing symptoms. We end up chasing supplements, hormone replacement, birth control, which can lead to a worsening of symptoms over time. Our female female hormones play a huge role in the overall hormone and re production and regulation. So if you aren't tracking your menstrual cycle, you guys please start because this is really your fifth vital sign and it's going to reveal so much about you. There's so many things that you can do, we can do to help regulate and improve hormone production as it is.
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So the first thing that you're gonna need to do and need to understand is the four phases of the menstrual cycle, which we are working our way through in the podcast. So even if you're not menstruating menopause, your hormones are still gonna rise and fall throughout the month. So tapping into your body and looking at your symptoms can give you a greater clue as to what is going on. Okay? Let's see. I also, I'm trying to, yeah, so let's quickly talk about the after the ovulation phase hits. Wait, hold on. I wanted to, okay, so I'm gonna kind of back up and share a little bit more. And we're gonna go into the ovulation phase, and then I'm gonna share with you in this kinds of yoga that, or <laugh> kinds of yoga kinds of exercise, what you should be eating in terms of like your diet when you're doing this.
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So before your menstrual psych, before your ovulation cycle, you hit the L tail phase. So after you finish the follicular phase, we transition into a five-ish day window of ovulation. So this is when F s h follicular stimulating hormone is rising, okay? The rise of that followed by the rise in l lutin hormone or LH stimulating stimulates the fo the molecules to release egg estrogen, inclu in, oh my goodness, words are hard, estrogen increase increases further, okay? So estrogen is going to rise to help thicken the lining. Testosterone is going to begin to surge driving the hormones and then dropping around the ovulation. This is a great week for us to communicate with people around us work partners, family, because our communication is really on point at this point, at, at this point, <laugh> at this time. And this is a week to ask for the raise, ask for pitching a new idea to someone, selling something, negotiating with something for something that you want.
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And you should also notice a surge in energy this week. So what you can do, and when it comes to this, like leverage that time when your body is saying, oh, this, like, I have more energy, I'm feeling really good, what you can do is start to do like Bikram yoga, you can do boot camps or hit training, cycling, some kind of energy exercise, what am I trying to say? An exercise that has high energy where you can push out a lot versus when you're on your menstrual cycle, you're gonna want lower impact, low energy, more kind of a flowy, just moving your body light, stretching, that kind of thing. Okay? So during this ovulation cycle, you are probably craving raw fruits, veggies, fiber. So go ahead and feed into that, especially for the veggies that are high in glutathione and protein. This helps to detoxify the liver, and this is really critical for your body at this time.
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So this, having foods, eating foods that are rich in glutathione is going to make it easier for your body to metabolize and eliminate estrogen. So things that, so what, let me go back and explain just in case you're like, wait, what does that mean? So when we release, or when we metabolize and eliminate that extra estrogen, that's when our body, lets go of the weight. That's when we stop having all of those cycle or all of those symptoms that we talked about earlier related to estrogen dominance, meaning like poor liver function, poor progesterone, where we're having irregular cycles and mens heavy periods, endometriosis, P C O S, painful periods, breakouts, and weight gain, right? So we, we really want to support our body in eliminating that estrogen. So stick to lighter grains like quinoa or raw veggies. So after ovulation phase, you're gonna hit that lu teal phase, and then we will go into that on the next podcast.
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Let me just, I wanna double check one more thing for you guys to see if I'm missing anything else as far as like what you should be doing during this time. Okay? So we talked about, okay, nope, I think we got all of that that I wanted to talk about in that section. The other part that I want to share with you guys is there is something called seed cycling. So this happened, this was kind of put together back in the 19, in 1987 by Dr. Edmund d Dwayne, I think. And this was really used to help people regulate their menstrual cycles back in the seventies slash early eighties. So first and foremost, we have to be tracking our, our phases, right? We have to know what our hormones are doing. But one of, and and here's the other interesting thing.
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A lot of people will try to debunk seed cycling, but we know that seeds help our body produce seeds, <laugh>, right? Like if you are wanting to support brain function, walnuts are great for that. If you wanna support different parts of the body, you are going to want to eat certain foods, right? And we know that seeds, support seeds in our body. Well, guess what are our hormones? Women we're releasing seeds or eggs every single month. So from day one to 14, we classify this as the follicular phase, even though it also includes the ovulation fades. So what you're gonna wanna do every single day, and you can do this a lot of different ways, is you want to have one tablespoon of flax seeds and one tablespoon of raw pumpkin seeds. For me, I just try to sprinkle them on a salad, make a smoothie something like that so that I'm able to get those in.
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And the reason for this is these seeds are rich or high in omega-3 fatty acids, which are going to, which is going to help promote healthy cell membranes. Flax seeds contain liga in, I hope I said that right, which will block excess estrogen in the first phase of the cycle, okay? Most of us are experiencing high estrogen levels so that flax seed can help bring those down. Pumpkin seeds are really high in zinc and they support progesterone production and relief that is needed for the release of the second phase of our cycle. And then day 15 to 28, we, we switch up the seeds that we are doing. So this is where we're hitting that first round of, or like we're, we're starting to get into, I said this wrong a couple seconds ago. The lou teal phase is where we start the ovulation.
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Okay? So the lal phase is where we're shifting not the follicular phase. The follicular phase is prepping the body for this. So day 15 to day 28 our body shifts from estrogen projection, estrogen production to progesterone production, and the egg e rubs releasing the progesterone to thicken the uterine lining. So for this phase, you are going to want to do one tablespoon of ground flax seeds and one tablespoon of sunflower seeds. So these are really rich in omega six fatty acids. Sesame seeds contain the liga ins he, which help to block excess estrogen while the sunflower seeds provide the body with selenium, which is a trace mineral that assists in liver detoxification and the process of hormones overall. So here's a cool thing. It takes four selenium molecules to turn into glutathione. So this is when we do seed cycling, it helps with that part, okay?
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It helps with getting the glutathione so that we can get the extra estrogen and things out. So just a couple other tidbits before we wrap this up. It's best to purchase whole seeds, meaning raw, organic and unha, unhealth, whatever that word is, <laugh>, and use a coffee grinder or like a high powered, high powered blender to mix them up. Only prep about two days at a time and keep those refrigerated. You can keep 'em refrigerated for a little bit longer, but if you just keep 'em on your counter so that they're out and you can see them more easily, only do about two days at a time. I, for me, like I said earlier the easiest way for me to do them is oftentimes in smoothies on salads. I don't do a lot of soups only because I live in Arizona and that's hot, and I don't always feel like soup <laugh>. But you can't, if you do oatmeal, you can sprinkle it on your oatmeal added to your veggies or grains, or you can just eat them on your own. So while you may notice changes within that first month of seed cycling it, like I said, it's really gonna take about three to four months to see significant improvements in your cycle. So be patient, be consistent, keep going. You got this, and I'll see you guys on the next.
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